Digital religion: understanding religious practice in new media worlds
Abingdon, Oxon; New York:
Routledge
(2013), xi, 272 pp., index
ISBN 9780415676113 (pbk); 9780203084861 (ebook)
Other Editions: 2nd ed. 2022
"Digital Religion offers a critical and systematic survey of the study of religion and new media. It covers religious engagement with a wide range of new media forms and highlights examples of new media engagement in all five of the major world religions. From cell phones and video games to blogs and Second Life, the book provides a detailed review of major topics; includes a series of case studies to illustrate and elucidate the thematic explorations; considers the theoretical, ethical and theological issues raised." (Publisher)
Contents
1 Introduction: The rise of the study of digital religion / Heidi A. Campbell, 1
I. THEMES IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION AND NEW MEDIA
2 Ritual / Christopher Helland, 25
3 Identity / Mia Lövheim, 41
4 Community / Heidi A. Campbell, 57
5 Authority / Pauline Hope Cheong, 72
6 Authenticity / Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, 88
7 Religion / Gregory Price Grieve, 104
II. THEMATIC CASE STUDIES
8 Hindu worship online and offline / Heinz Scheifinger, 121
9 Virtual Buddhism: Buddhist ritual in Second Life / Louise Connelly, 128
10 Playing Muslim hero: Construction of identity in video games / Vit Sisler, 136
11 Digital storytelling and collective religious identity in a moderate to progressive youth group / Lynn Schofield Clark and Jill Dierberg, 147
12 Charting frontiers of online religious communities: The case of Chabad Jews / Oren Golan, 155
13 Considering religious community through online churches / Tim Hutchings, 164
14 The kosher cell phone in ultra-Orthodox society: A technological ghetto within the global village? / Tsuriel Rashi, 173
15 Formation of a religious Technorati: Negotiations of authority among Australian emerging church blogs / Paul Emerson Teusner, 182
16 Alt-Muslim: Muslims and modernity's discontents / Nabil Echchaibi, 190
17 You are what you install: Religious authenticity and identity in mobile apps / Rachel Wagner, 199
18 Japanese new religions online: Hikari no Wa and "net religion" / Eric A. Baffelli, 207
19 "'Go online!' said my guardian angel": The Internet as a platform for religious negotiation / Nadja Miczek, 215
III. REFLECTIONS ON STUDYING RELIGION AND NEW MEDIA
20 Theoretical frameworks for approaching religion and new media / Knut Lundby, 225
21 Ethical issues in the study of religion and new media / Mark D. Johns, 238
22 Theology and the new media / Stephen Garner, 251
23 Concluding thoughts: Imagining the religious in and through the digital / Stewart M. Hoover, 266
I. THEMES IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION AND NEW MEDIA
2 Ritual / Christopher Helland, 25
3 Identity / Mia Lövheim, 41
4 Community / Heidi A. Campbell, 57
5 Authority / Pauline Hope Cheong, 72
6 Authenticity / Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, 88
7 Religion / Gregory Price Grieve, 104
II. THEMATIC CASE STUDIES
8 Hindu worship online and offline / Heinz Scheifinger, 121
9 Virtual Buddhism: Buddhist ritual in Second Life / Louise Connelly, 128
10 Playing Muslim hero: Construction of identity in video games / Vit Sisler, 136
11 Digital storytelling and collective religious identity in a moderate to progressive youth group / Lynn Schofield Clark and Jill Dierberg, 147
12 Charting frontiers of online religious communities: The case of Chabad Jews / Oren Golan, 155
13 Considering religious community through online churches / Tim Hutchings, 164
14 The kosher cell phone in ultra-Orthodox society: A technological ghetto within the global village? / Tsuriel Rashi, 173
15 Formation of a religious Technorati: Negotiations of authority among Australian emerging church blogs / Paul Emerson Teusner, 182
16 Alt-Muslim: Muslims and modernity's discontents / Nabil Echchaibi, 190
17 You are what you install: Religious authenticity and identity in mobile apps / Rachel Wagner, 199
18 Japanese new religions online: Hikari no Wa and "net religion" / Eric A. Baffelli, 207
19 "'Go online!' said my guardian angel": The Internet as a platform for religious negotiation / Nadja Miczek, 215
III. REFLECTIONS ON STUDYING RELIGION AND NEW MEDIA
20 Theoretical frameworks for approaching religion and new media / Knut Lundby, 225
21 Ethical issues in the study of religion and new media / Mark D. Johns, 238
22 Theology and the new media / Stephen Garner, 251
23 Concluding thoughts: Imagining the religious in and through the digital / Stewart M. Hoover, 266
